{"id":329,"date":"2008-04-16T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/04\/16\/son-of-man-preliminary-work\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:48:17","slug":"son-of-man-preliminary-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/04\/16\/son-of-man-preliminary-work\/","title":{"rendered":"SON OF MAN \/ Preliminary Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMrough.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMrough.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Wow, I\u2019ve been absent here for a while\u2026.a full two weeks. Definitely not a vacation, I can assure you. Been working on a ton of cover work and because of some intense deadlines, I\u2019ve needed to stay focused on the art. I\u2019ll start to unveil some of my new work in the coming days. If the above post looks like a deja vu, that\u2019s because it was previously previewed on this blog. It\u2019s the rough sketch of my proposed wraparound cover illustration for Robert Silverberg\u2019s classic SON OF MAN, which will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrsf.com\/\">Pyr<\/a> trade paperback release later this year. I\u2019m showing it again, so you can compare it to the full pencils below, seen here for the first time. 14\u2033x21\u2033. Pencil on cold-press Crescent illustration board.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMpencils.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMpencils.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>I\u2019m finishing the final color art for this right now, and I\u2019ll hopefully unveil it tomorrow (fingers crossed).\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I\u2019ve been absent here for a while\u2026.a full two weeks. Definitely not a vacation, I can assure you. Been working on a ton of cover work and because of some intense deadlines, I\u2019ve needed to stay focused on the art. I\u2019ll start to unveil some of my new work in the coming days. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMrough.jpg?fit=716%2C488","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-5j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}